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I see your point, but I don't think you're going to see quite the same reverence, precisely because it doesn't have that visceral connection to the music and its creation that vinyl does. There has to be computing technology as an intermediary to get sound waves onto CDs, so at that point why not skip the middle man? Vinyl is also a more tactilely "old" technology, that's still modern enough to have a practical setup around it. Think fountain pens or muscle cars with carburetors and no electronics. Then, there's the fact that it's deeply connected even to the terminology of the music industry. "Record," "album," "track," even "single" all come from vinyl itself. The cultural cachet is unmatched.
People switched to CDs en masse because they were easier to live with than vinyl and a huge improvement over cassettes in every way (except height and width, LOL), but it was very transactional, so CDs were always apt to being replaced again if something even more convenient came along. Even in their heyday, there were people pining for the days of vinyl, and it's the spiritual descendants of that crew that are keeping records alive. CDs will not disappear, and there will be a certain crew that appreciates all the things that made them a good mass market distribution medium, but I don't think they're going to inspire tastemakers the same way vinyl does.
I am getting old now, and I could be wrong, but it's fun to predict. :-)